During the night we had a heavy shower of rain with thunder and lightning, which completely drenched both ourselves and our baggage.
We descended from Rasheyat-el-Fukhar into the plain, in which we continued till we reached Banias, at the end of four hours, thoroughly drenchedby a heavy shower of rain.
Her rags did, for a more disreputable bird I never saw, though she, too, washed and napped her wings, and dived and drenched herself before getting out on the bank to preen and beak over her feathers.
Drenched to the very skin, shivering and sneezing with cold, they gave no heed to the rain tattooing on their faces or to the enemy shells.
A thunderstorm turned its lashing rain upon their unprotected forms, drenchedthem utterly and damped their spirits.
Long, long have these eyes been drenched with the tears of a broken heart!
Then they stood in a state of some embarrassment, Bathsheba trying to wipe her dreadfully drenchedand inflamed face without his noticing her.
He was drenched, weary, and sad, and yet not so sad as drenched and weary, for he was cheered by a sense of success in a good cause.
While the furious battles were raging, the height was reduced to bare soil, every foot of its surface having been ploughed with shell and drenched with blood.
The men in the leaking cutter, after being tossed and buffeted by the sea, drenched to the skin by the waves, and numbed by the bitter wind, were picked up by the Brixham fishing smack Providence about fifteen miles from Berry Head.
We submit to a thousand public abuses because we are too drenched in our own fatness to criticise or disturb ourselves.
Your letters must simply cease to be drenched with the night-dew of flimsy sentiment.
Soon Holcomb and the trapper were trudging about in the stifling heat of the ruins; they had drenched themselves to the waist in the brook and were thus enabled to make a hurried search within the fire zone.
He stood steaming before the fire as he spoke--drenched to the skin, the others crowding round him, too happy for the moment to ply him with questions.
After a day's work all the copy-books are literally drenched with the black fluid; they are moist and heavy.
If a storm by night passed over them and he discovered them in the morning sagged, matted, and drenched with rain, his compassion knew no bounds.
Between them gleamed, like the Eagle Star itself, a flower of deepest rose, an unearthly crystalline color, like a rain-drenched jacinth.
Just at dawn, in a dew-drenched thicket of spirea, I found three nests not six feet apart.
They used to come to him late at night, confer with him secretly in his room, and when they were gone I found him each time drenched in a perspiration and feverishly gulping spirits.
I was drenched with rain, and my spatter-dashes, with which I had thought to make up in some degree for the inadequate foot-wear of red shoes on horseback, were foul with clay.
He took it eagerly and drenched himself with the contents.
We do not ask to be sprinkled with rosewater, but may perhaps fairly protest against being drenched with the rinsings of an unclean imagination.
Close in front came a huge wagon piled high with cases of freight, and drawn along by a team of twelve mules, whose heavy breathing and drenched skins showed them hard-worked and well tired out.
The raging sea was swept with huge tattered clouds drenched by the waves.
We were in dread, in the last stages of sheer horror, our blood frozen in our veins, our nerves numb, drenched in cold sweat as if from the throes of dying!
Both travellers were drenched to the skin before they were free of Saxmundham, and one of them, when after midnight they stumbled into the poor tumble-down parody of a tavern at Glemham, was in an extreme exhaustion.
For all about the castle he piled stacks of wood and drenched them with oil, bethinking him that Solita his wife, if little joy she had had of her life, should have undeniable honour in her obsequies.
While it was a house whose very mortar must be drenched with tradition, whose every window had looked upon histories innumerable worth retelling, nothing was revealed of the matter in hand.
It might have been a psalm and this forsaken dew-drenched bower a great cathedral, so rapt, so devoted, his spirit as he sought to utter the very deepest ecstasy.
She shivered as the keen breeze swept over her drenched form, bearing with it the intoxicating scent of June flowers blooming riotously in the neglected gardens, and rising wearily, she toiled up to the house and aroused the servants.
Heedless of the warring elements, and with his heart on fire with pain, he trudged on toward his hotel, not caring to claim the hospitality of Gray Gables in his present drenched condition.
Donald Kayne, drenched to the skin, staggered away from the place, buffeted by the mad elements, but almost unconscious of it all in the excitement of his mind.
Drenched and shivering, Nita struggled to her knees again.
He was drenched with perspiration, and only too glad to accept the manager's hospitality, and have a wash and rest.
Geoffrey, who was beginning to be drenched with perspiration.
Every chief approached his man, and having drenched him from head to foot with water, commenced an operation calculated to set any civilised man's teeth and nerves on edge.
Her clothes were drenched through, and Halsa felt that her strength would not enable her to keep up with her companion much longer.
She had snatched up a hat from the stand in the passage as she passed through, but had not thought of taking a cloak, and even by the time they reached the gate the steady drizzle had drenched her light dress.
When it is brought back, drenched and dripping, from a fire, it is cleaned and scrubbed, and then suspended in the hose-well to dry.
Imagine yourself gazing at two wooden sheds, both quite filled with combustible materials, and drenched with petroleum and tar.
Bare is poor Flora's head, and sorely drenched her hair, that an hour or two ago glittered in the sunshine.
